Turcutheca
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| Turcutheca Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | †Hyolitha |
| Order: | †Orthothecida (?) |
| Family: | †Circothecidae |
| Genus: | †Turcutheca |
Turcutheca is a Tommotian (Early Cambrian) genus of shelly fossil whose affinities are uncertain, generally considered as an orthothecid hyolith[2] (which would make it a brachiopod,[3] but also resembling the ellesmeroceratids (early cephalopods).[1]
References
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- ^ e.g. Brasier, M. D. (1986). The succession of small shelly fossils (especially conoidal microfossils) from English Precambrian–Cambrian boundary beds. Geological Magazine, 123(3), 237–256. doi:10.1017/S0016756800034737
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